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It was the strangest feeling.

I met someone socially this morning. We ended up around a computer having coffee, and I pulled up my website. His face froze when he saw the 4-photo banner on the blog. "I've SEEN those pictures somewhere before!" I tried to laugh it off, or simply shrug it off as, "When you put your images out...who knows?" Besides, this has been happening more and more lately: "It's like I've SEEN your face before!" And let's face it, I do create media content. I have performed. You just never know.

But then I made the mistake of asking this new acquaintance, "Well is this hazy memory of 'seeing me somewhere before' coming back to you with a negative sensation?" And (likely before he could censor himself) he said, "YES!" Well, I thought, Who the hell needs THIS?"

But then I became as near-obsessed as him, wondering where he might have come across "me" and it come away with an impression of me that is framed in a negative light. But then again, I've always felt I had resolved the issue of whether I gave a rats ass about what the faceless "mass" thought of me. (Clearly I had decided I didn't. I couldn't. it's impractical.) It becomes more nerve-wracking, however, when someone steps out of the mass and develops a face, like this guy did tonight.

It creeped me out.